IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A)

IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A)
Network Server
IBM

20 Jul 2010
133072

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
The IBM Power™ 575 supercomputing node is designed for organizations that require a highly scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense, modular packaging. Use it in clustered configurations of as few as 32 processor cores or in world-class supercomputer configurations of thousands of processors. Combined with specialized software from IBM, this system is designed to perform and represents the latest Power technology available.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	ES330_076
CPU:	16 IBM POWER6™ 3.5 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	64-bit PCI-X 2 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 4 LSI Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM IC35L073x CD210-0 , SCSI HP ST336607LC , SCSI Seagate® Cheetah 15K ST373453LC , SCSI 3 Hitachi GST HUS151473VLS300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. The Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet adapter was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
139400

Adapters and Drivers


4 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 127664
	Checksum: 0b2e4ebe15bbab0ced362a3cc59797ce

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 174408
	Checksum: c1038351ec05e3e69d145d73fea6f513

4 LSI Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sym53c8xx.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 150432
	Checksum: 115e591590c721703846fac56b44d8a3

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) - Yes Bulletin 133072 | SUSE